Visitor Oop North Day 2

[Marksman 934]

Sorry for the late writeup guys, supposed to be on holiday but had to go into work!

 

Anyway.....day 2 of Davy's visit up here turned out a little more productive

We hit the permission after our usual 45min drive, night vision set and headed out a lot earlier than we normally would due to Davy's departure on Sunday. This time Davy went with Wor kid.

The ground was more or less the same as our other permission we visited on the Friday night, melting snow and squelchy mud, that was until the temperature decided to plummet and the lot froze and left a thick haw frost covering the ground. This made stalking very difficult, every step sounded like a platoon of marching soldiers.

We headed up towards the railway embankment which is normally alive with rabbits but yet there were only a few out, which was normally the case in our early arrival.

I managed to get my first after a stalk what felt like an hour (but was only probably 5 mins, a neat headshot at about 35M, the second came a bit later but not after getting a massive voice coming thru the radio just as I was about to kneel to take the shot which caused the rabbit to run 30M further down the field. Luckily it stopped and I began the stalk and managed a 30M shot to watch it fall

After the first hour or so with not much about and the NV fogging up due to the heat of the body and the cold of the night I headed back to the van and met wor kid and Davy for a cuppa.

 

We headed up to the top of the hill to a different part of the permission which is quite treacherous in the daytime never mind at night with hidden boulders, gullys and cliffs.

I disappeared again and headed off to a large warren under a Sycamore tree where I took my 3rd of the night.

The last of mine came from round by the tyres that the farmer uses to keep the plastic over the silage, leaning on the fencepost it was bang on zero and went down like a sack of spuds!

I managed 4, Davy managed 2 and wor kid 1 making the total for the night 7 big fat bunnies!

We had a great weekend and enjoyed Davys company, I think he had a good time too!

 

A couple of photos from the night apologies for the quality.....More would have been taken if both Davy and myself had renewed the batteries before we drove into the middle of nowhere

 

The Bag

 

Davy n Wor kid

 

Me

 

cheers for reading

 

Darryl

Edited December 13, 2010 by Marksman

[ANDY&ARCHIE 5]

sounds like you all had a good weekend.

its good to get together

[Marksman 934]

yup.....cant wait till April for "THE BIG ONE!!"

 

Darryl

[ANDY&ARCHIE 5]

it will be good.

you dont fancy our darts comp at mine on the 30th then mate.?

[hunter1989 91]

hi lads

 

looks like a good time all had

 

did davy go to sleep marksman

 

atb steve

[Marksman 934]

it will be good.

you dont fancy our darts comp at mine on the 30th then mate.?

 

Would love to but its a bit of a trip for us just for 1 night mate, especially with it being so close to New Year

Thanks for the offer though, much appreciated!

 

Darryl

[Marksman 934]

did davy go to sleep marksman

 

Only a couple of times mate..... Not whilst shooting though

 

Darryl

[ANDY&ARCHIE 5]

no probs if ever you are down this neck of the woods let me no buddy

[zini 1,939]

Great write up Darryl buddy,

 

Were you using the HW100 or the BSA Super 10 mate?

 

I can’t make it out on my iphone.

 

Bloody good shooting anyway buddy with a NV scope that is probably not more that x4 mag.

 

When I used to have my Paladin NV rifle scope and use my HW95K with it, I found it really hard to judge distance at night through a NV scope.

 

Proper nails infact, so 30 metres is a hell of a shot buddy on a bunny, well done.

 

Well done to Davy and Gary too.

 

Top blokes and good mates of mine.

 

Si

[davyt63 1,845]

hi every one

as above,had a great time up with Gary & Darryl.

i had met the mad Geordie's twice before and had to visit them on there own turff!

despite the 10 hr round trip! it was well worth it!

 

 

the permissions they have are stunning and plenty full,my NV unit was playing up as well due to cold weather,mist,frost,low battery lol

 

i didn't take many photos due to have such a good time and low batteries

 

but here are a few i took

 

Gary getting ready

 

 

 

Darryl getting ready

 

 

Darryl posing!!

 

 

Darryl's rifle & nv unit

 

 

my 35yd head shot,16gr AA field .22

 

 

 

which was a 70yd stalk!!

 

thats all i took,boring aint i!!

 

i would like to say a big thank you to Gary & Darryl for inviting me up,to have a shoot with em like!!

and a special thanks to Gary for putting me up in the spare room,and for feeding me all week end .

Jackie's cooking looked after me,and lovely it was!

"THANK YOU JACKIE" :blush:

 

 

and Gary kept me in a constant supply of tea!!!

 

they narff drink a lot of tea oop north!

 

and thanks to Shannon as well for giving up her room! for me

 

i spent a lot of time with Gary and his family,and it was a real pleasure!

 

i Na speak fluent Geordie LIKE!!!

 

what a great week end,shooting and chillaxing!!!

 

regards

 

 

Davy

[Marksman 934]

 

I look like IM gonna fall asleep on that one..... :laugh:

 

Great pics Davy and it was a pleasure working with you mate, glad you liked our terrain!

 

Darryl

[andyz 30]

Nice one lads, good write ups....

 

A 10 hr round trip is no mean feat! Looking forward to catching up with you guys at 'The Big Meet'....

 

ATB,

 

Andy